Planet Buster won't Bust Planet

[slappy]

Sorry...disregard this message. I just realized I hadn't installed the SMAX 2.0 patch...I'm gonna try bustin me some planet one more time and I'll come edit this message again if it still doesn't work.

Hey all. I'm playing SMAX with the 4.0 SMAC patch and the WinXP/2k patch and I'll be damned if I can use the planetbuster missile. As I recall, in the original SMAC, it worked like any other payload...you fly it to where you want the big hole and press I or something like that. But since installing Alien Crossfire, the planetbuster doesn't have the detonate command. Instead its actions menu looks like that of an aircraft, like a needlejet or interceptor. It has a command for a bombing run, but nothing to detonate. I'm assuming this is a bug, and wondering if anyone else has run across the problem and/or knows of a fix.

Thanks.

 

[Nword]

It may well be a bug. But a patch won't fix it, you have to target it on something for it to blow. Or at least i'm 95% sure that's the case last time I tried. (yes i use SMAX)

 

[slappy]

Aha! I thought I had tried that, but maybe I only tried to use it like a Fungicide or Tectonic payload. Anyway, thanks. It did my heard good to watch that big old bomb-crater lake appear again.

 

[Shirastro]

You have to hit something for planet byster to explode.
And i'm 100% sure of it

 

[slappy]

That did it